Adapter from Car to ipod shuffle

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Adapter from Car to ipod shuffle

Do you know of an adapter that will allow the iPod shuffle to be used in a BMW,328? There is an flat looking adapter coming out of the audio part (similiar in size to the iPhone) that looks like it is supposed to input right into a Ipod unit. But... the shuffle has the little mini jack. I have an USB adapter. Is there one that will fit into the car adapter?

VAIO, Windows XP

Posted on Dec 14, 2010 7:31 PM

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Dec 15, 2010 12:53 PM in response to roadtale

Probably the cable on your car stereo is for the dock connector found on normal (full sized) iPods. To the best of my knowledge, there are no adapters to go from the headphone jack data connection of the shuffle to a full dock connector.

Does your car stereo have an AUX input that uses a headphone sized jack? If so, you can always play the Shuffle through that with a 1/8" stereo to 1/8" stereo patch cord, but you would still have to control the iPod on the iPod itself and it won't charge either. But should play fine.

Patrick

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